ROBERT LASSEN
Historical speculative fiction and supernatural thrillers, with a little side helping of Lovecraft
NEWS & EVENTS
With COVID finally behind us (fingers crossed), things are starting to heat up - with new stories available and a new novel inbound very soon. Keep checking here for more news and updates!
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"The Shadow Under Sad Hill"
You wait years to get into a SNAFU anthology from Cohesion Press - and then you make it into two consecutive ones! "SNAFU: DEAD OR ALIVE" is out there now (and getting amazing reviews), and my story "The Shadow Under Sad Hill" is part of it. Lovecraft fans will spot the title homage to a classic HPL tale, but you spot another inspiration in this story of an Old West deputy and a Sheriff with some rather unusual personal traits, facing off against Lovecraftian villains in a desperate attempt to save the town they love...
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"The Shayatin Express"
I'd been trying for years to get a coveted and exclusive slot in the acclaimed SNAFU series from Cohesion Press...good things come to those who keep fighting! Their anthology, "SNAFU: HOLY WAR", is available now, and includes a brand-new K Department story. So what is "The Shayatin Express"? Well, we're talking 1917, an assault on a moving and heavily-guarded train, K Department agents, heroic freedom fighters, a dash of Lawrence of Arabia...and a cargo that is more horrifying than any could have imagined...
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So what's in it for you? Well, for starters, you get a FREE novelette - ANCIENT - from the K Department Lovecraft Archive just as soon as you tell me which email address you want it sent to. Every now and then you'll get an EXCLUSIVE short story for mailing list subscribers, as well as behind-the-scenes details about the books and the characters that you won't find anywhere else. And, of course, you'll also get immediate access to all the news, special offers and upcoming events as soon as they drop.
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Ancient - FREE now when you join the mailing list!
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Occupied Yugoslavia, 1943. In the midst of a beautiful valley of lush trees and wholesome crops, three German soldiers are dead...maybe worse than dead. Oberleutnant Strebinger's mission is to find out why, but it seems everyone else has a different agenda - the local mayor, his ruthless local allies, and most of all the civilian sent from Berlin by the infamous Eckartstrasse. Together, they are drawn inexorably to the high mountain that casts a long shadow over a seemingly perfect village...
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And when Strebinger learns the truth waiting for them, he'll wish he'd believed the lies...
ANCIENT is the first in a series of K Department short stories, novelettes and the occasional novella that are VERY loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft stories. First to get the K Department treatment is one of Lovecraft's more obscure stories, "The Very Old Folk". Don't worry if you've never heard of it - even some hardcore Lovecraft fans haven't! But I'm really excited about this story, and about some of the others coming up soon.
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